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the west island French West Indies, and the capital which stands thereon. The town importance, having very bad anchorage. Ba et Horn, 2 kind of tenor additional keys enabling it to (sounding F) in the ba clef. in various curved shapes for convenience ling. Mozart and Mendel ohn, former, have written for it. Ba et Hound, 2 breed of to the Dachshund (q.v.). They or rough-coated, and both these crooked or straight legs. These common in France, where they game, but they were only introduced about 1875. aR with figures, showing Though he pictures of his at Ba ano is 1592, and two of in the same art. ee with Rica, and 3B, they resemskull and teeth (q.v.). formerly their structure species (BZ. astuta, States and Mexico, America) are but of slenderer JZ. astuta, the of which the tail and the tail is often kept as miners, and is 27 miles north of of little import early Portuguese in 1750, it by the famous and its capital the chief comhas an area of on the east of range stretches the lrawadi, the of rice. The a channel of the trade with since 1852. and chief port of on the west it has a fortified of Guadeloupe, of the colony is diminishing in clarinet, with reach the deep C It has been made of hand especially the dogs closely allied may be smooth forms may have dogs are fairly are used to track into England 391 Lorraine service his he amba ador He reign sequently the love-letters memoirs. low double and long courtal, instrument ment of Egyptians W. times but form of inventor's a The known fancied of from modern the the in makers. three treble This tones, But instruments well the cellent Pastoral March” of the Handel's Bas som pierre. Bas som pierre, FRANCO IS DE, was in 1579 of noble family. Entering of Henry IV. he distinguished himself ability, wit, courage, and gallantry. was made marshal, and subsequently to Spain, Switzerland, and played a part in the siege of Rochelle. of Louis XIII. he opposed Richelieu, was imprisoned (1631) for twelve Bastille, where he destroyed his you sands and composed his highly interesting He died in 1646. Ba oon, 2 wood wind musical instrument pitch, whose sounds are produced through reed. It is doubtle of great has been known in one form or another period under the names of buisine, bommard, bombard, or wait. The is supposed to have been an of the deep drone of the bagpipe (q.v.). the names for a pipe of deep tone among is zwnumarah-be-so an, according Lane; and the spelling of the word not only describes the character of also indicates its Eastern origin. The improvement of the ba oon in its has been stated to be due to Afranio, Ferrara, in 1539. It is called phagoti nephew, who described the invention work published in the above-mentioned name fagotto, by which the instrument in Italy, means a bundle or faggot, idea that the ba oon resembled sticks. The German term fagott is the Italian. ‘The French and Italians times call it by the name Ba on, sound produced. From the time of Afranio present the instrument has not varied its construction. The best are by The compa of the ba oon extends octaves, that is to say, from low A flat. compa includes all the intermediate except the lowest B natural and C al eS RINT these notes and others can be obtained of special construction. The ba oon is used in the military reed as in the orchestra. In the latter it true ba of the oboe, but it is capable independent effects, such as appest Symphony of Beethoven, the in the Midsummer Night's Dream Mendel ohn, the scene of the resurrection nuns in Meyer beer’s Roberto il Diavolo, Saul, Boieldieu’s Dame Blanche, ( 361 born in the by In 1622 went as England. In the and con years in of of a antiquity, for a buzaine, primitive improve- One the to E. in early the tone present a canon by the in year. is from a a bundle derived of from to much French to nearly B flat to semi sharp. from band, as serves as of exin the “Clown’s music of in Gounod’s ) Faust, introduced Pomone, of posers strument JSagotto, tra out the merly and by the instruments and beginning Anewly-constructed employed the in works, Symphony, overture van, double tragacanth, specific acid, formation, of It and The against pa ed for there Diemen’s named British tains small vascular consisting of form from bundles dons, activity the exception substances the leaf, flax, the Bast. and other works. It was said to have been into the orchestra by Canbert in his 1671, to augment the tone the ba es, but subsequent com have exalted it into an inwith individual powers. The double ba oon (It. contra Fr. contre ba on, Ger. confagott or doppel fagott) gives sounds an octave lower than ordinary ba oon. It was for employed in military bands, appears to have been introduced Handel in his concertos about year 1739, when a pair of these wus made by Stanes by, occasionally employed until) the of the nineteenth century. instrument was at the Handel Festival at Crystal Palace in 1871, Haydn, his Creation, Beethoven, in many notably in the C minor Mendel ohn, in his BASSOON, The He brides, and Sulliin several of his compositions, employ the ba oon with great effect. Ba ora Gum, 2 tough white gum resembling and sometimes called hog tray acanth; gravity, 1:36. It contains a mucilaginous called ba or in, closely allied to Arabic acid. Ba orah. [BAsrRa.] Ba Rock, 3 precipitous islet of basaltic 350 feet high, at the mouth of the Firth Forth, a mile from the coast of Eust Lothian. was bought by Charles I. from the Lauder family, used for some years as a prison for Covenanters. adherents of James II. held it for some time William III. It was then dismantled and into private hands, being of no value except the eggs and feathers of sea-birds that swarm in the breeding seasons, Ba Strait, the strait which separates Van Land or Tasmania from Australia, so from the discoverer (1798), a surgeon in the navy. Its breadth is 150 miles, and it con a few islets rich in guano, and occupied by a English colony.